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| : 1 . 1 jel | ' | 1 4 Nem ee en f ew or ane bet mu? ao Wl. ~ “4 aft . a} Lhicepo flit NO. LAP ce0l ie ‘ay es +e bl qui K —_—_—_—— The following ort gee appears in the Yanuary 29, 1943 issue of "Cyrrent History" entitl renty Years of Negro Progress" ‘by HERBERT doa , Director of Publicity, NMACFs =~ "at the end of May 1909 the National Negro Congress w the conspi.uous abse “ces being BOOKER T. WASULNOTON, ference rece relation: were discussed in the plan formed in the Cooper Union, New Yor:., with a frankness and directuess of state~- ment the* have since -tcocome familiar. among tle speckers ‘rere the late jvofessce JOHN SFS'CER BASSETT, Professor FIARAND of Columbia Vuiversity, Judge STAFFORD, and JENKIN LLOYL JONES. it was decided at that conference to fo-m a permanent committee and to hold other conferences. Qut of tris beginning grew the National Association icr t. icvancement of Colored Isople, organized aTe7manent bouy in 1910, having for its president yOoRP IEEE Bore of Boston, former President of the «z73rican Bar Association, whcse a‘*ivity and interest in the ficid of race relationsms dated ba.« to his services as Secretary to Senator CHARLES SUMNER in the person of Dr. DU BOIS. The Niagara Movement and that new organization were merged.. Dr. DU BOIS came fram Atlanta to New York to assume the duty of Director of Research and *-'.. of the editor of the 'Crises' magazine which first -_peared in Novenber of 1910." ane Niagara wmOoOvVemeny According to atyarticle appearing in the "Light" magazine on February 26, 1927, WILLA; KENS, Field Representative of the NAACP toured Russia and wrote articles concerning his experiences there. The following article appeared in the Seattle enterprise on February 4, 1927 with a New York date line of February 3, 1927: "Also have Jews been received by the NAACP, 69 Fifth Avenue fram WILLIAM FICKENS, Field Secretary of the NAACP who has visited Russia or his European lecture tour. “Among the Russian leaders kr. PICKENS has conferred with are KALININ, sisters of Trotsky and Lenin, and prominent editors. He reports that the 'Fire in the Flint' by WALTER WHITE and 'Bursting Bonds' ana 'The Vengeance cf the Gods' by Mr. PICKENS himself are to be translated into Russian and perhaps put on the stage as well CATAL oa | ‘ | | !